CAAT News issue 267 cover. The quarterly magazine of Campaign Against Arms Trade. Autumn 2023. Image of protesters outside Excel Centre London with banner saying "War starts here". Text: Shut down the arms fair. CAAT logo.

 

The shockingly sad events in Palestine and Israel started

as we were finalising the copy for this issue,

do please read our statement on UK arms exports to Israel here.

November 2023

Dear Friends,

Good riddance to DSEI!

This edition of CAAT News comes in the wake of another dreaded DSEI, and has involved many of us in a variety of roles. A very tired staff team (and a great deal of our volunteers and other friends) are glad to put DSEI behind themselves, having taken quite serious risks for their own safety, and are now hoping that we can continue our campaign to prevent it returning in 2025.

We can’t continue our campaigning without you – our volunteers and supporters. Thank you all for your help in so many ways!

There is, as usual, plenty to read, including:

  1. We look at Saudi Arabia again on pages 3 and 7, carrying on our work raising awareness of the levels of arms the UK sells to Saudi, the brutal repression and terrible impact on human rights. The Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, had invited the Crown Prince, Mohammed Bin Salman, to pay a visit to the country but we can’t see a great deal of hope that the Government will end its support for this dreadful regime. In the fall-out from the conflict in Gaza and Israel, this visit was postponed.

  2. We supported the activists halting the arms fair in Malvern, in the heart of the beautiful Three Counties area. But now you can read how the an arms fair in Telford is popping up to replace it on page 7.

  3. There’s full coverage of DSEI on pages 8-10, and an account of how we used the funds you generously gave us after our appeal in the last issue of CAAT News on page 15.

  4. Party conference season has now finished, and we consider the Labour party and arms sales, and what a Labour government might mean for our campaigning on page 12.

Please donate to support CAAT’s wide-ranging work in our campaign to halt the arms trade!

We trust that you believe in what we are doing, and support our work. Do let us know your thoughts, and alert us of anything you hear of that you think would be useful for us to know.

If you are able to, please donate today to help us carry on our work, keeping up our pressure on the Government and the arms industry and raising awareness of the horrors of the arms trade.

We’d ask you to consider making your donations to us by Direct Debit: they are easy to set up and, by making regular payments, really do mount up over time (and you can easily stop them at any time).

If you are not able to help financially at the moment, you can read on for plenty of other ways to get involved in this work in the enclosed CAAT News magazine.

Follow this LINK to read CAAT News 267! 

And THIS ONE to make a donation.

Thank you so much for your support in so many ways!

Charles Wright

Development Supporter Manager

Campaign Against Arms Trade

P.S. A very big thank you to all of you who were able to give to our DSEI appeal last time! You can read how we used your donations on the back page of this CAAT News.

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